What is London Remembers?
The aim of this website is to document all the memorials in London. That's the plaques, monuments, statues, fountains, etc, that commemorate a person, an event, a building, etc. It's an aim we don't think we will ever achieve but we will enjoy the attempt.
Memorial types
Fountain
138 memorials
Gates
21 memorials
Ghost bike
31 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
27 memorials
Monument
321 memorials
Mural
91 memorials
Latest Memorials
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Spencer Perceval bust - Pitzhangar
W5, Mattock Lane, Pitzhanger Manor
Unusually neither of the memorials is visible in our photo of the location, but we hope you agree that the house is worthy of a picture f...
1 subject commemorated
John Soane at Pitzhanger
W5, Mattock Lane, Pitzhanger Manor
Unusually neither of the memorials is visible in our photo of the location, but we hope you agree that the house is worthy of a picture f...
2 subjects commemorated
Walpole Park - opened
W5, Walpole Park
Walpole Park Opened for the use of the public, 1st May 1901 by the Rt. Hon. Lord George Hamilton, MP for the Ealing Division of Middlesex...
22 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Reading Room stone
W5, Walpole Park
This stone comes from the porch of the south wing of nearby Pitzhanger Manor. The 1770 wing was designed by George Dance but the porch, w...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
London stone - 2011
EC4, Cannon Street, 111
This is the text that was on top of the cubicle in which the Stone sat from about 1962. We took the photo of the 1960s building in 2015 b...
3 subjects commemorated
Latest Subjects
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W. H. C. Groome
Member of the Ealing District Council in 1899. Bear Alley has a full biography of Groome by Robert J Kirkpatrick, with many illustrations: ""W.H.C. Groome was one of the most prolific children’s b...
1 memorial
Edward Montague Nelson
Businessman and local politician. Born Warwick but spent most of his working life in London. His businesses tended to have colonial, especially Australian, connections. Lived at Hanger Hill House,...
1 memorial
Spencer Walpole
Sir Spencer Walpole KCB, FBA was an English historian and civil servant. The son of Spencer Horace Walpole he was descended from one of the brothers of Robert Walpole. Through his mother he was a ...
1 memorial
Lord George Hamilton
Lord George Francis Hamilton was a Conservative politician. First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for India. MP for the Ealing Division of Middlesex Third son of James Hamilton, 1st D...
1 memorial
Charles Jones
Architect, engineer and surveyor. Born in Beccles, Suffolk. His works include two Ealing Town Halls: the current one and the previous one, now (2024) NatWest bank at 1a The Mall, Ealing, and severa...
1 memorial
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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Born on this day
Sir James Macnaghten Hogg
Born: 3/5/1823, 201 years ago
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, India
3 memorials
Puzzle-corner
FCO - F unknown
The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...